After trying my hand at painting humans to mixed results I decided to practice on Ape X. This is large sized cyborg gorilla miniature from the original Bones Kickstarter that got worse than it deserved from me. I think that the finished job is functional but it’s a bit of a waste of a fun sculpt. I…
Category: Miniatures
All about buying, customizing, and painting miniatures.
Painted Skeleton in Play
I finally used one of my painted miniatures in my ongoing Broken Covenant campaign this last Friday. It’s just a skeleton that I had stand in for a lich but I think it added a lot. I also fielded my newly painted treasure chest. It makes me excited for the day when the majority of…
Horace “Action” Johnson and The Black Mist
After finishing the Goblin and Rats, I decided to practice by painting actual humans. I selected Horace “Action” Johnson and The Black Mist. These were two more models that I got in the original Reaper Bones Kickstarter. I went with a Confederate take on The Black Mist and, while I learned a lot, I think…
A Goblin and some Rats
After finishing my mech a couple of months went by in which I did nothing. Then, knowing that I had a lot of work to do in order to have miniatures ready for my upcoming Science Fantasy campaign, I started up again by practicing on a Goblin and some Rats. All four miniatures were from the first Reaper Bones Kickstarter which…
The DIP Method
The DIP Method is a technique primarily used by speed painters to shade and varnish large numbers of miniatures relatively quickly. My interest in it is primarily because this varnish makes for very durable miniatures. This was the first varnish that I used. The reason it’s called the DIP method is that you literally dip the miniatures…
CAV: Strike Operations Nightshade
For a long time my favorite “mech” has been Battletech’s Marauder. Granted, the Marauder design is a relicensing of the Glaug battle pod from Macross, but I first encountered in the novel Decision at Thunder Rift and it’s stuck as my favorite “mech” design since. So when one of my friends decided to start up a tabletop mech game…